[An instrument for measurement of the quality of nursing care given in a hospital].

The experience and the various steps of the adaptation of an instrument for assessing the quality of care delivered are described. The instrument adopted was the IGEQSI (Instrument Global d'Evaluation de la Qualité de Soins Infermiers), because it is easy to use, it allows to obtain a global evaluation thus analyzing several areas of nursing care and because resources, processes and outcomes of care are considered. Since it was developed in a foreign culture it required a substantial adaptation either in the contents or in the structure. The steps of the adaptation process are described and some of the results of the pilot evaluation (on 250 patients) presented. The results of the pilot evaluations were discussed and well accepted by the nurses, who recognised their ward situations in the scores obtained.